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    awards the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize for the best graduate student essay, in her honor. Elsie Worthington Clews was the daughter of Henry Clews, a wealthy...
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    and a friend of Abraham Lincoln. His son, Henry Clews Jr., lived at Château de la Napoule, France. Clews was born on August 14, 1834, in Staffordshire,...
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    One of Clews' aunts was married into the Vanderbilt family and another into the Astor family. Clews' older sister, Dr. Elsie Clews Parsons (who married...
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    Publishers ISBN 1-56000-218-2 Elsie Clews Parsons Pueblo Indian Religion, University of Chicago Press, 1939. Elsie Clews Parsons and Ralph L. Beals, The Sacred...
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  • were U.S. Representative Herbert Parsons and Elsie Clews Parsons (a daughter of British-American financier Henry Clews and Lucy Madison Worthington, a...
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    studying anthropology at the New School of Social Research under Elsie Clews Parsons, she entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1921, where...
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    Hurston, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Bronisław Malinowski, Margaret Mead, Elsie Clews Parsons, Pearl Primus, Paul Rabinow, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Marshall Sahlins...
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    University of Chicago; Alexander Goldenweiser (1910), who, with Elsie Clews Parsons (who received her doctorate in sociology from Columbia in 1899, but...
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  • Zealand rugby union player Elsie Clews Parsons (1875–1941), American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist and feminist Elsie Payne (1927–2004), teacher...
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    ISBN 1-57416-000-1 Elsie Clews Parsons, Pueblo Indian Religion (2 vols., Chicago, 1939). Ryan D, A. L. Kroeber Elsie Clews Parsons American Anthropologist...
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    portal Tim Asch Gregory Bateson Ray Birdwhistell Macy Conferences Elsie Clews Parsons Visual anthropology Zora Neale Hurston 75½ Bedford St "Margaret Mead...
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    variety of language communities around the world. Anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons compiled an extensive list of references of the Tar Baby stories...
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  • author Henry Clews. Among his many cousins were Elsie Clews Parsons (wife of U.S. Representative Herbert Parsons) and artist Henry Clews Jr., who lived...
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    from Ojong Akpan of Mfamosing. An American variant was collected by Elsie Clews Parsons from Cape Verde. Audio readings/dramatizations include: Dick Bentley...
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  • great hunter than to be one herself. According to anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons, Átahsaia figures in a Zuni spiritual dance intended to teach children...
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  • Clews, English musician; member of the Michael Nyman Band Vince Clews, (1943- ), American author, creator "Consumer Survival Kit" (PBS) Elsie Clews Parsons...
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  • Hag in Folk-tales of Andros Island, Bahamas, published in 1918 by Elsie Clews Parsons that are the same as the 1904 version of Clavel, but the Hags can...
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    Edward Sapir (1938) Diamond Jenness (1939) John M. Cooper (1940) Elsie Clews Parsons (1941) A.V. Kidder (1942) Leslie Spier (1943) Robert Redfield (1944)...
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    the Taos Pueblo by anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons following her visits to the pueblo in the 1920s and 1930s. Parsons identified Maribal's Tiwa Language...
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    local rancher John J. Hollister). In 1917, Dodge, her husband, and Elsie Clews Parsons moved to Taos, New Mexico, where she began a literary colony. On...
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    general staff of the American Expeditionary Forces. Parsons was married to Elsie Worthington Clews, an anthropologist and folklorist of the indigenous...
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    Veblen, James Harvey Robinson, Graham Wallas, Charles B. Davenport, Elsie Clews Parsons, and Roscoe Pound. Years later, The New School begin to offer degrees...
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  • from 1999 to 2001. Among her monographies are Wealth and Rebellion: Elsie Clews Parsons, Anthropologist and Folklorist from 1992. Among her co-edited volumes...
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  • Morris Opler Sherry Ortner Keith F. Otterbein Evelia Edith Oyhenart Elsie Clews Parsons Bronisław Piłsudski Thomas J. Pluckhahn Hortense Powdermaker A.H...
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  • Boas and specialized in the Pueblo Indians. She worked closely with Elsie Clews Parsons and also with Ruth Benedict on the Blackfoot. She published on Pueblo...
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  • Sapir (1938) Diamond Jenness (1939) John Montgomery Cooper (1940) Elsie Clews Parsons (1941) Alfred V. Kidder (1942) Leslie Spier (1943) Robert Redfield...
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  • (1933–2024), American philosopher Coleman Parsons (1905–1991), American professor of literature Elsie Clews Parsons (1875–1941), American anthropologist,...
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  • (1897–1962) m. (1) 1921 (div. 1929): Elsie Parsons (1901–1966) (daughter of Herbert Parsons and Elsie Clews Parsons); (2) 1945: Helen Isabelle Mitchell...
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  • Sapir (1938) Diamond Jenness (1939) John Montgomery Cooper (1940) Elsie Clews Parsons (1941) Alfred V. Kidder (1942) Leslie Spier (1943) Robert Redfield...
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    Alfarache (1599) as a predecessor of the tale-type. Anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons collected variants of the tale in Caribbean countries. Children's...
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